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The Washington critic., 1887-12-10
National Gnnrd Notcs.

Guard hops arc scheduled as follows;
Washington Contincntals, on the I'D instant,
at their armory, corner Of Eighth and Il
streets; Washington Merchants Rifles, at
Edcls Hall, on January 10 next; the Ma
tionnl Fenciblos, at the end of this month.
The Corcoran Cadets will give their sixth
complimentary hop at the Rifles armory
next month. This corps Is to form u drum
corps and u debating society.
Emmett Guards have membership of
torty-ilyc and are going TO give Gull'drcss
hop early next month.
The Butler Infantry Corps are holding u
fair for the benefit of the uniform fund,
which is very successful.
Acknowledgement Bigelow has issued
orders for general company inspection.
Senator IIawlcy Is warm friend of the
District of Columbia militia, and it is to be
hoped he will be chairman of the Senate
Committee on Military.
Lieutenant Findlay will deliver lecture
TO the militia officers next Wednesday ON
military signaling.
1t is expected that General Ordway will
soon appoint rifle practice inspector to the
staiG of each regiment and an assistant in
spectur to each battalion.
Mr. Field. at 5lj Seventh street is receiving
many applications from tclcgmphers iol
membership in the proposed signal corps oi
the ID. &. n. G. \ meeting will be held soon
TO effect an organization.
Some public spirited citizens with little
idle capital to invest should step To the front
and erect some good armurics for the use o
the District militia. 1t would be paying
investment.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-10

Daniel could not point his pistol on ac-
count of his wounded arm and received
u shot in the leg. lie died three days
before the Confcdcracy fell. John
Warwick Daniel, the present Senator,
has been candidate for Governor of
Virginia, but was defeated by Cameron.
Daniel speaks largely oiI-hand. llcuscs
good language and throws in an occa-
sional. sentence which reminds one of
John Randolph of Roanoke. He is in
striking contrast with Hiscock, whom
some consider an ADLER man than he.
Hiscock is tall, full chested and full
OF dignity. lie makes good speech
and always does the proper thing at the
proper time. He represents the greatest
State of the Union, and he was one of
the leaders of the Lower House while
he was in it. He has probably better
knowledge Of Congressional matters than
has Daniel, and he will certainly make
some Of his best efforts during the pres.
ent session. FRANK q. CARPENTER.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-10
How n Thieves Gang Worked

KNOXVILLE, TENN, Dec. 10.-Fivc men,
giving their names as W, II. Clark, G. W.
Clark, s. NJ. Hudson,J ]. Il. Thompson and 4.
j. Millard, were arrested here Thursday night
on suspicion of having robbed II bank and
Tompkinsyillc, Monroe County, KY, several
weeks ago. They were found in small
house in the suburbs, which they lately had
fixed up at considerable expense. None OF
them were armed, but, in searching the
house, the officers found ten revolyors.
They also found complete kit of bur
glars tools, ,'.jimmics,n chisels and every
thing that fixes bank burglar for his call
ing The men, all handsome and we'll.
dressed fellows, were rcmanded to jail to
await the arrival of sufficient evidence from
Kentucky to give them preliminary hear.
they came here to go into business.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-10
FRESH CAPITOL GOSSIP.
Scenes at the Opening of a New Con
greSslOnal Session,
MEMBERS NEW AND OLD.
Chit.Chat About Randall, Carlisle
and Othcrs-lir. Hoar and the
Little French Woman.
Washington is again on the boom.

Washington is again on the boom.
Lcnnsylvania avenue is crowded with
carriages.
Every corridor of the Capitol is filed
with politicians, lobbyists and sight
seers.
The boarding-houses and hotels are
packed from cellar to garret.
The Congressional machine has begun
to move and one of the liveliest sessions
in our history is at hand.
The old Members who have returned
arc looking remarkably well. The new
ones are healthy set of greenhorns,
and their eye teeth are being cut in the
most approved Congressional style.
About the first thing the new Member
does on coming hcre.is to make break
for the bank of the Capitol and draw
what money is due him. Here he finds
very nice fellow in the person Of ex-
Congressman Leedom, who is the Con.
gressional banker, and who posts him
as to some of the ways which are dark
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TRYING TO DRAW his SALARY.

TRYING TO DRAW Ills SALARY.
and the tricks that are vain. He re-
fuses, however, to allow him to over
draw his account, and saw one of these
new Members vehemently protesting
against this rule the other day. His
back was turned me, and don't care to
give his face in this sketch; but Leedom,
calm and cool, looked out through the
bars of the bank and told him he ought
to live within his income, and that the
meanest creditor in the world was
"Uncle Sam"
1t is curious how Members draw their
money. Some take it monthly, some
call for 1t every day and others let it lie
till the end of the year. One of the
richest men of the last Congress was
William l.. Scott, the millionaire of
Erie, and it is said that he has had as
high as $4,000 on deposit in this bank of
the Capitol. He made checks at times
of 5000 each, and he often used it as IL
bank of deposit The Congressman can
pay his board bill with check on this
bank and he can settle accounts any
where in Washington with such checks
just as though it was an ordinary place
of deposit. Dave Page had once &c.,
900 in the safe Of the Sergeant-at-Arms,
and at one time Il Congressman named
Fredericks of Iowa made single draft
Of $1,000. The average drafts are,
however, monthly, weekly or daily
checks, and Randolph Tucker used to
draw out his money in S. and $40 bills.
SPEAKER CARLISLE.
The new Members are all very anxious
to meet the Speaker, and all of them
have by this time been introduced to
Mr.. Carlisle. Mr.. Carlisle is himself
looking very well. He is a very tall,
straight man with dark, smooth
shaven, rough-hewn face and voice
which has something of the buzz-saw
about it. He sits on his spine large part
Of the time during which he presides
over the House, and it is only when he
rises to his feet that you appreciate his
size and dignity. He is very serious
man, and he makes an excellent
Speaker. There is nothing snobbish about
him, and his decisions are, as rule,
just. have not heard him charged with
partisanship and rs he stands up with his
gavel in hand he forms striking figure.
He has better control of his temper than
had either Speaker Keifer or Sam Ran
dali. He is II man of convictions and he
believes that this country will event.
ually levy its tariffs for revenue only.
Speaker Carlisle lives at the Riggs
House this year, as he has in the past,
and his wife will entertain there as
usual. During the summer he has spent
much of his time at Wichita, where his
sons are practicing law and where they
are among the leading lawyers of South.
ern Kansas.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-10
Fatal Quarrel Among Cinnamon

SAN Francisco, CAL, Dec. 10,-Lec Way,
the Chinaman killed in factional quarrel
between the Bo Sim Seer and Gle Sim Seer
societies, was buried Thursday. The
faction to which he belonged made
n great demonstration and invited an
attack from the enemy, but the police were
out in force and had II Gatling gun in read-
ness to quell street battle. All white per-
sons were warned 10 keep out of Chinatown.
offering $3.50 for the arrest of any
man discharging pistol ut another,
was torn down and the police had
10 protect the Chinese official who replaced
it. Several Chinese bands led the funeral of
Lee Way, and the grave was covered with
offerings of roast duck and pork and baskets
thrown in the huge fire by the grave to give
the slaughtered partisan n good start in the
other world
The Washington critic., 1887-12-10
BASEBALL MEN.
The American Association Hard mt Wori
Revising Rules.


CINCINNATI, Dec. 1O.-The work ofthc base
ball men is rather slow, The Brooklyn and
Athletic clubs are trying to make II deal for
the transfer of players. Brooklyn has made
an offer of three players, said to be Clarke,
Mays and McTammany for Stovey. The
Brooklyn men say that the three men whom
they offer to the Athletics will go far toward
Strengthening that team, and that while
Stovey would not add SO great an amount of
strength to the Brooklyn team, he would be
a good general, and could take command of
the team. The Athletic men are holding
OIL, as they say that they cannot ullOrd to
part with Stovey.
The Athletics have signed Lyons.
1t came out to-day that the Association
umpircs were paid these salaries: Gaifney,
and McQuudc. 5000.
1t is not likely that any one will he found
at the present meeting TO take the Metropoli-
tan franchise oft the hands of the Brooklyn
Club. II was said that Pittsburg had made
an offer for it, but this is not true.
The Association has rejected the two-men
substitute in the playing rules, but they have
given che League the privilege Of using the
rule if they wish. \ strong objection was
made 10 the base on balls being credited as
an error and counting in an earned run. 1t
was reported back TO the rules committee
asked for more time. The election Aesulted
us follows:
President, Mr.. Wikof; vicc-prcsident,
Chris. Won der Ahe; board of directors,
Athletic Baltimore, st. Louis and Clove.
land; arbitration committee the same as last
year; schedule committee Brooklyn, Gin
cinnati and Louisville; finance committee,
Athletic, Cincinnati and st. Louis on rules
Baltimore, Cleveland and Louisville; com.
mittec on umpircs, Athletic, Louisville and
Cleveland chairman, II. Il. Won der Horst
A resolution was passed not to publish the
proceedings in the official guide hereafter.
Robinson of Cleveland introduced n reso-
luton TO advance the rate of admission from
twenty-five to fifty cents, the visiting club to
get thirty per cent of the receipts. After
considerable discussion it was adopted. The
Athletic Club will not be governed by the
rule, as Il proviso is made which permits
that club to charge what it plcases.
The eighth club matter was finally re-
ferred to o committee, consisting of Wander
horst of Baltimore Robinson of Cleveland,
and Abel of Brooklyn.
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the flesh and blood people around you.
| you arc not in sympathy with them
If you neither laugh. nor cry, nor re-
ioice, nor sorrow with them, you cannot
expect your readers to do so.
In describing n locality be sure you are
right, If, like Walter Scott, you 90 miles
TO sec IL. Bc accurate even in 50 minute
n detail as the starting Of q train. These
matters may seem very trivial, hut they
make the book read as if it were true,
and you can scarcely have u higher COM
pliment. A plot was thought necessary
twenty years ago, but recently there has
come into fashion a
NEw STYLE or WHITING,
and there are successful novels in which
there are only long descriptions and in
tcrmlnabc dialogues, varied OCCASION
ally by some incident which keeps the
story together. If you like this sort Of
thing aud have not sufficient imacina-
ton to weave plot and make it fit all
its parts, attempt the conversational and
descriptive style Somebody is sure TO
like it, that is, If you can get it pub
lished.
And on this point | should like to say
something, but am reminded that my
/ time is mp and / must leave unsaid u
great deal that meant to say in the be-
ginning. When one who has been ac-
customcd to range at will over hundreds
of pages is limited TO so many words, it
/ is much like taking Il wild colt from the
ranches of the West and shutting it up
in corral, where it is told 20 exercise
The colt can't exercise, for aftcrthc first
/ leap 1t strikes its head against the bars.
/ Neither can do justice to my subject,
/ for, just rs | get warmed to it, ] am
| compelled TO stop. But some time, when
{ the ir0uld-Jos have become ares, and
have learned that the apples of fame are
much like the apples of Sodom, may
tell them something of my experience
with publishers and critics, and last,
though not least, reporters.
MARY j. HOLMES.
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MIR. WATKINS TALKS.
His Team VIII Open Next Season at New
Orleans.

Orleans.
C1NcfNNATf, Dec. 10.-W. II. Watkins,
manager of the Detroit champions, and
who succeeded in gathering in the MEM
bers of that great aggregation together,
has arrived here. 81 came here" he
said, ''to arrange dates with Cincinnati,
Louisville, and st. Louis, and also with
the Southern League clubs, represented
at the board of arbitration meeting.
have about settled to open the season
with our team at New Orleans and play
up through the South. Cincinnati is
holding off, but am confident ! will
compete with st. Louis for the spring
series between the two championship
mines"
"Can you imagine when you will first
meet st. Louis?"
"Oh, yes. We will open in New
Orleans with two games, and in all prob
ability play in Memphis, Birmingham,
and Nashville. The Dctroits will go to
Louisville, and probably Cincinnatii
from here to st. Louis to play two games
before the American season opens, max.
ing a series of seven games between the
st. Louis and Dctroits."
"About the hitch against you of the
Detroit players, WHAT"
81 have not heard anything about it,
except what have read. understand
from n New York gentleman on the
ground here that my removal is the iisrt
movement of the brotherhood TO get rid
of non-playing managers. | was given
to understand that if the fight was sue
cessful, then Mutric of the New York
would be the next manager to go. | am
not laying awake nights thinking about
it. l treated my men so Loyalty thi,
year that cannot understand why there
should be any objection to me-"
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Protecting His Farm by Force.

CARDILLAc, MIcII,, Dec, lO-Thc Toledo,
Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railroad
was surveyed through John Chapn's farm.
Chaplin sworc that he would have no rail.
road cutting up his farm, and posted a no,
tice warning trespasscrs that he would shoot
the first railroadcr caught prowling ON the
premises. Yesterday track-layors began
he fired upon them, shooting John Thomas
through the bowels and Fred. Sabine in the
head. They are dangerously hurt. Chaplin
has been arrested
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Mccting of Coke Prndnccrs.

PITTsRupG, Pa, Dec. 1O.--At meeting o
the Independent Coke Producers As,ocin
ton, held recently at Connellsyillc, eaci
member pledged his individual support 10 d
new organization which will consist of Tn,
old producers association with the addition
Of j. w, Moore and Rainey & Cochranc. A
Pittsburg office will be established and th,
coke pooled and marketed indepcndenti. q
the syndicate, ~.
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will sit in the Presidents chair, and he
bears his honors well. HIS tongue will
not have the same chance to spit out
sarcasm that it had during the last ses-
sion, but he will probably be heard of
before many months have passed. He
is not the kind of man to allow his
position to restrain him from uttering
his sentiments, and when he has any
thing to say he will call one of his
brother Senators to the chair and will
90 down upon the floor and say it. He
will make several ringing speeches be-
fore the political conventions of the two
parties meet.
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Cox and Tom Reed are to be the funny
men of the session which is now upon
us. They are both overilowing with
good spirits, and their minds are mir
rors which continually turn the sublime
into the ridiculous. Cox is full of new
humor, which he has gathered in the
Orient, and he will probably vent his
Turkish jokes upon the American House.
He is preparing a book on oriental
humor, and he will do his Congressional
work at his home, in n Turkish fez,
smoking between the whiles the hookha
which the Sultan presented to him.
THE CROWDED CORRIDORS.
Tho corridor between the House and
the Senate is as crowded nowadays as is
Broadway, New York, near Trinity
Church at in the afternoon. The little
French woman, who has become ma
tional character, still has her booth mid
way between the House and Senate, and
she buttonholes every prominent man
who passes. 1t is said that she once
threw her arms about the neck of Sena-
tor Harrison, and / took an instanta-
neous photograph of her while she was
talking to Senator Hoar to-day. Hoar
had blind smile on his smoothly
shaven face as he looked on her like u
benevolent priest listening to the prattle
of child, and the little French woman,
who must be now fast coming toward the
sixties, courtesicd and complimented rs
though she were coquettc of 10, and as
though she had captured the benevolent
Senator. As / looked at the two / said
to myself, "Oh, you giddy things!" and
went on toward the Senate.
Speaking of the Senate, fully one
third of it is newly elected, and new faces
shine out Of some of the best known seats.
1t is hard to tell who will be its great
men during the coming year, but such of
the old ones as remain are back in their
seats ready to make good fight for
their pet ideas and their parties. Ingalls,
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THE NEW SENATOR'S.

Speaking Of this side of the House, it
has gained much by the addition of the
two Senators, Daniel of Virginia and
Turpie of Indiana, while the Republi-
cans have added to their strength in
Hiscock of New York and Stewart of
Nevada. / saw Hiscock and Daniel
chatting together to-day. They were
seated together ON one Of the lounges of
the Senate, and Daniel had crutch by
his side. He is, you know, Il little lame,
and he was shot all to pieces during the
war. He is tall, tine-looking man,
with an intellectual face, which re-
sembles very much that of Edwin Booth.
He has jet black hair, large black eyes,
and is known in Virginia as its ''silver-
tongued orator" He comes of one of
the oldest families of the State and his
relatives have been prominent men since
the beginning of the country. His father
was judge. Travers Daniel was Attor-
ney-Gcneral of Virginia, and was one of
its most noted orators. John Reeves
Daniel was Acknowledgement of North
Carolina, and Peter Vivian Daniel, who
studied law in the office of Edmund
Randolph, previously n member of
Washington's Cabinet, was u Judge on
the Supreme Bench, and was personal
friend of Andrew jackson. John Mon
cure Daniel was one of the noted editors
OF the South years ago, and he was one
of the men who lent Edgar A. Poe
money when he was in want He was
appointed Minister to Sardinia by Bu-
chanan, and while there il is said that
he created II scandal by taking to one of
the royal balls. countess who had
not been invited. This John Mon
cure Daniel was wounded in the arm
during the late war, and after
wards became an editor at Richmond.
lie here attacked jefferson Davis and
Mr.. Elmore, the Confederate Treasurer,
and in 1864 Elmore challenged him.
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tu portrait and historical painting Evening
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QUESTIONS FOR DEBATr.'

Senator Sherman will also make some
speeches this session, and we may ex-
pect an effort from Senator Cockrcll
upon the condition of the two parties,
and upon the workings of the Govern
ment Departments. Edmunds proposes
to make strike for the postal telegraph,
and Senator Cullom, who, by the way,
has many of the attributes of Abraham
Lincoln, will make speeches in the same
direction. The Mormon question will
be again discussed, and some of Ed
munds' ablcst words will be against
making Utah State at the present
time under any condition, and George
Vest and Senator Kenna will each
make eloquent speeches. Dan Voor-
hees, the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash,
will make n speech supporting the Ad-
ministration as denial of the charge
made by his son that he was against 1t,
and it is generally conceded that the
Democratic party will do what it can
toward the support of the Administra-
ton,
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hRAMING ScnnnI-AncI1rEcrrRAL. ME.

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day aud "Wednesday evenings, from TO o. Ap.
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FRANK HIscocR AND SENATOR DANIEL.
Speaking Of Randall, he is back here
as brown as berry and as strong as the
steel rails which he always wishes to
protect by tariff. He does not grow
older as the years go on, and his eyes
are brighter now and his voice stronger
than they were ten years ago.
Sam Cox is, next to Randall, the lead
ing figure on the Democratic side of the
House this season. He is us full of wit
as ever, and l watched friendly con-
versation between him and Tom Reed of
Maine this afternoon. Cox stood on one
side of the aisle of the House sepa-
rating the two parties, and they had
been shaking hands, as it were, across
the chasm. Cox was bobbing up and
down and talking like phonograph
run by electricity, and Reed was shak-